DACH Victorianists Reading Group

3. Session 

Save the date! The DACH Victorianists Reading Group will resume its meetings in the winter term. Our next session will be on Friday, 23 October 2026, from 2-3 pm, as usual, on Zoom. We will discuss a section from Kathy Alexis Psomiades's Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity (OUP, 2023).
We're excited that Sophia Jochem has agreed to host the session. If you would like to join the discussion, please register here. Reading material and the Zoom link will be sent to participants a couple of weeks in advance. We're looking forward to seeing you soon!
For questions, reading suggestions and ideas concerning the Reading Group, please contact Stefanie John.

2. Session 

The DACH Victorianists reading group has been off to a great start! Thank you again to everyone who attended the inaugural meeting and helped make it such a joyful, productive, and engaging discussion. The next session is already in the works! Join us on 12 June from 3-4 pm to discuss an excerpt from Daniel Wright's The Grounds of the Novel (Stanford UP, 2024). Ariane de Waal will moderate the discussion. Please register here to receive the Zoom link and reading material. If you'd like to moderate a future session and have an article or book chapter in mind, please get in touch with Stefanie John.
We hope to see many of you there!

1. Session 

We are excited to announce a new initiative within our network: the DACH Victorianists Reading Group, launched by Stefanie John. You are warmly invited to the inaugural meeting of the group, scheduled for Friday, 24 April 2026, 3-4 pm (CET) via Zoom. Scholars at all career stages are welcome! We will host online meetings on a regular basis to discuss critical work on key issues and debates in Victorian Studies in an informal setting. Everyone is welcome to suggest reading material – a journal article or book chapter on any topic which interests you, but which might also be relevant to fellow researchers in Victorian Studies – and to moderate discussions.
At our first meeting, we will discuss Sukanya Banerjee, Ryan D. Fong’s, and Helena Michie’s Introduction to their special issue “Widening the Nineteenth Century”, published in Victorian Literature and Culture in 2021. This session is designed to stimulate conversation on the global nineteenth century in view of the upcoming 9th DACH Victorianists Workshop “'Terraqueous' Victorians: Global Geographies as Metaphor, Materiality, and Methodology” scheduled for 26 June.
We very much look forward to welcoming you to the reading group and/or the next workshop, whether you are new to the network or a long-standing member.